a stalwart Man was subjected to my post with a cute girly aesthetic and he took the time to let me know how much it annoyed him that there are posts on Mastodon that are cute and girly. There is of course only one solution
in all, ahem, seriousness, if you want a Liberated Social Network but you only want stern serious grown-up posts on it, you haven’t liberated jack
@0xabad1dea Jack needs to decolonize his mind.
@0xabad1dea sounds tedious. gimme shitposts (as well)
@0xabad1dea freedom is when no girls
@0xabad1dea I wonder if this is the same person who blocked me a week or so ago for posting childish replies...
@quixoticgeek @0xabad1dea slim odds, but only ‘cuz us pedantic white folk abound.
@0xabad1dea we are on this planet to have fun!

@0xabad1dea

That's a bitchin' carved duck!!!

Also, ditto to what the others are saying: screw that guy.

@0xabad1dea
The more diverse a range of ideas and self-expression I find here, the better.
@0xabad1dea funny how that also goes for society
@0xabad1dea "There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." -- The Fourth Doctor

@0xabad1dea

them:
my whimsical ass:   ✨ 💫

@0xabad1dea Jeph Jacques once went on record that every time someone complains about QC having too many queer characters, he adds a new queer character.
@ryan @0xabad1dea Is that why there are so many characters???
@lunarloony @ryan @0xabad1dea Ha ha, queer or not, I can't keep track of them all!
@ryan @0xabad1dea I knew there was a reason I liked his work so much
@0xabad1dea the only correct response really
@0xabad1dea Imagine letting something so petty annoy you smh
@0xabad1dea i like chibi guanyin
@0xabad1dea activity pub should have decorated post, where you can provide a subset of css (border, border-image, background-color, color, font-weight, maybe font-family. The background-color and color combo would be validated and refused if not contrast-accessible)
@0xabad1dea I love you so much. ❤️🌷🧚🏼🐇
@0xabad1dea i don't know that i'm especially stallwart, but i'm at least nominally male, and i'm here for the cute girl stuff. go for it. 👍
@0xabad1dea Thank you for transcribing the cursive in the alt text

@0xabad1dea This is the way.

Also give Odin hugs.

@0xabad1dea stalwart man is presumably an adult with agency who can elect to follow you or not. Unless their outreach was a secret cry for help; "I have no agency! I love girly aesthetics but society forbids it! Help!". In the interest of minimizing harms, we should assume the latter and thereby increase girly aesthetic content as much as we are able. Stalwart man may be in distress and on a journey of discovery.

@0xabad1dea Stalwart man doesn't know what mute is? If you don't like it, mute it and move on with your life, while they move on with theirs.

BTW, I like your duck 🙂

@technothrasher I got the duck for five euros from a random sidewalk vendor in Sicily. I got the goat from Odin's jowls. I pried open his mouth when it became clear he was smuggling something, and there was an entire goat in there of unknown provenance
@0xabad1dea @technothrasher Oh dear. A goat of unknown providence, for some reason that one broke me up. He's such a good baby boy.
@0xabad1dea @technothrasher saw this out of context and didn't THINK you meant a LIVE duck and goat but I was NOT SURE ABOUT THAT.
@kevingranade @0xabad1dea @technothrasher Odin's jowls are cavernous enough to smuggle an entire live duck

@kevingranade @0xabad1dea

Out of context, Odin is no dog. And suddenly we're in the middle of a holistic detective story.

@kevingranade @0xabad1dea @technothrasher

As a small child, I was knocked down by a goat. Repeatedly. So I was personally HOPING for the live full-sized goat option.

@technothrasher @0xabad1dea personally I'm partial to the Inkling

@0xabad1dea please feel free to turn up the girlposting to the max.

I’m tired of watching Very Serious Men suffocating in their own farts.

@0xabad1dea Guess he needs to man up!
Oh! Uh. Well then. This post you have made is cute and girly in its aesthetic, and that annoys me so very much. I must take the time to let you know, so you don't dare post any more adorable collages or otherwise arrangements of cute things and girls. I would be uh, terribly offended, if you did so many more times. 🥸
@0xabad1dea the Stalwartitude is a mere facade, at risk of shattering by the mere presence of an plush.
@0xabad1dea Stalwart Man? I'm not familiar with that particular Robot Master

@0xabad1dea

Excellent response.

Reminds me of the time a complete stranger messaged me out of the blue to notify that they would NOT be following me, because I "lacked seriousness".

Uh. Okay?

So I blocked them.

@0xabad1dea As a person with a lot of deep-seated, unresolved animosity for the frilly dresses and automatically pink consumer goods that were foisted on me as The Only Correct Things To Like as a child, this guy can go eat a very manly brick.
@0xabad1dea "People should be less joyful"
"Why?"
"I don't know, I just generally wish humanity were more miserable than it is"
@0xabad1dea I once attended a mensa meeting, where one of the other attendees was so glad to see another man turn up because now it would be possible to talk about serious topics, instead of girly things like soap operas and and "flowery topics" (never did get a meaningful definition of "flowery topics"). I don't particularly like soap operas, but my goodness did I spend the entire time there talking about them like I was a massive fan. I don't think he liked me after that.

@pmb00cs @0xabad1dea

Wow.

As far as "flowery" topics go, ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) isn't gender-coded, and is pretty cool.

@0xabad1dea

I'm a dude and I love cute things. I don't understand people who lack whimsy.

@0xabad1dea Guy thought this place is LinkedIn, probably.
@0xabad1dea I'm guessing that "man" has never used a block button, or doesn't know that he can migrate to a "manlier" instance.
@0xabad1dea this is the only rational reaction. Fucking increase the fucking cute girly things!